“There needs to be a little bit of room for a mistake, a surprise or something graceful or ugly.”

Carrie Brownstein is busy. She’s back with her old muckers Corin Tucker and Janet Weiss for a new, fiery St.Vincent-produced Sleater-Kinney album, just when we needed it most. In the 1990s Carrie and Sleater-Kinney were at the centre of the Seattle indie music scene, wielding songs as forthright as their feminist politics. In the interim, the 44-year-old has chalked up television credentials with equally progressive shows Portlandia, which she co-created and co-writes, and Transparent, in which she stars. She’s currently deep in rehearsal for Sleater-Kinney’s forthcoming American tour, but thankfully Carrie’s got time for a chat with Hanna Hanra and to answer The Calling.

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